| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cal Jillson. Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four Centuries. (American Political Thought.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2004. Pp. xv, 347. $34.95.

Cal Jillson offers us an informed if very broad history of the American Dream, that "shimmering vision of a fruitful country open to all who come, learn, work, save, invest, and play by the rules." While assuming basic constancy in the dream, Jillson divides its history into seven conventional historical periods, addressing in each four themes (social landscape, articulation of the dream, the dream in law and institution, and "faces of exclusion"). The result is a primer in American history with concepts and trends well defined, but not necessarily resulting in daring insights or dramatic conclusions.

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